Dr_Sagan Really there aren't too many things I can say for this movie.It is "filmed" in a strange way with multiple go-pro-like cameras among the usual and has a tiresome fast way of doing things. The direction of photography is as expected strange, the dialogs are dull and the character development non-existent. IMO the actors were a bad cast too.As I'm reading was universally panned by critics and audience and it was a nominee for the 2014 Golden Raspberry Awards.Soooo....the verdict is obvious and you should avoid this movie even when it's on free TV.A movie experiment that failed...

xxx3-3 It was a bad film overall, but that street level point of view car chase was just amazing! It takes place toward the end. I know that lot of you people will jump on my head when I say this, but it was better than the famous car chase scene from Bullitt (actually there are many films with better car chase scenes then that one). In Bullitt you could easily see how they put it on fast forward many times just to give the impression the cars go faster. In this scene from Getaway you don't feel that at all, and it was also a sequence shot only adding more value to it. I recommend to fast forward to that scene and than put another DVD into the DVD-player.

jpkwolf Nonstop action with decently shot car chases. Nothing you haven't seen before and that is the problem of the movie. It's been done better many times before. Everything here just feels really mediocre. The dialogue is quite terrible. Often feeling like it's from some bad video game with the characters saying random quotes that don't add anything to the story. The action is sometimes too over the top and characters behave in stupid ways. The small twist in the end doesn't save much. At least the action is quite intense, so the movie is possibly worth one watch. Also Selena Gomez isn't that horrible in it. Still this movie could have been so much better.

brchthethird This has to be one of the worst movies from 2013. It's barely 90 minutes, but it felt like an eternity. Basically, the movie is just one long chase scene with a few breaks for pointless dialogue. There is no depth to the characters and the story is really lame. Ethan Hawke plays a former race car driver who has to steal a car and follow instructions from a mostly unseen villain in order to save his wife. Throw Selena Gomez into the mix, who may or may not have something to do with the villain's true motives, and you have a poorly acted, sorry excuse for a "film". The central gimmick of the movie is that the car is fitted with a bunch of cameras, which means that you get a bunch of weird camera angles and HD video-looking (read: poor quality) photography from all sorts of video/surveillance feeds. Not only that, but it's edited very haphazardly (shots are never held for more than a couple of seconds) and the space in which the action takes place is never clearly defined. Then there's the villains, which are your standard cliché Eastern European villains, the chief one played by Jon Voight and whose face is never shown in its entirety (ashamed, maybe?). Not only that, but this movie was shot on the cheap in Bulgaria, and it shows. Overall, there's nothing at all good about this film, save for a single song: Jingle Bell Rock (for some inexplicable reason, this movie takes place during Christmas, although I distinctly remember this movie coming out in the fall). For those of you who remember, Jingle Bell Rock was used as the opening song to LETHAL WEAPON, which was produced by Joel Silver (and who also produced this dud, so maybe he ripped himself off). Obviously, a single soundtrack cut isn't enough to warrant watching a movie, so your best option would be to "Getaway" from this at all costs.